Comic Book References

The Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane was recently tweeted by director Marc Webb. This of course, for any Spiderman fans will immediately conjure up a distinct image of the correctional facility used to harbor some of the webslinger's greatest enemies.

Effectively the Arkham Asylum of the Spiderman world (Apologies Spiderman fanboys!), it was founded and developed by the US Government in an attempt to contain and treat many different super-villains. Designed as a maximum security enclosure, the powers that be decided that it would be in their best interests to allow Doctor Ashley Kafka to direct and evaluate preceedings; she had previously demonstrated great prowess in providing psychiatric application to the criminals that the facility was intended to house.